I love how Trent Reznor treats his fans, awesome stuff. Just enter your email address and post code and you’ll get an email with the download link. The track is pretty damn good, it’s the cliche NIN sound but I never seem to get tired of it. In the ID3 tag under comments it says to visit NIN on the 5th of May. Hopefully an album release, who knows, I’m keen though.

From Trent’s blog posts and the numerous releases, he’s obviously testing the waters to see what the best model is to sell his music, without fucking over the fans at the same time, and it’s something that very few high profile artists are doing. He’s definitely gaining a lot of cred from the internet community and his fans. I just hope other artists and record companies are taking notice of what he’s doing.

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The new beer stein goes well. That’s 3 full Pure Blonde stubbies in there. And I think I drank them as quick as I would drink 1 with that stein.

“Apple Australia have today announced internally the details of the Australian iPhone release. The phone will be released in the last week of June to coincide with the opening of the Sydney Apple Store. The phone will also be unlocked for use with more than 1 carrier, providing evidence it may be a 3G iPhone we first see here.”

Oh man I’m so stoked about this one. My phone contract ends in August, hopefully I can get out of it a couple of months early. I’m totally getting one.

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I just had a very surreal experience. Someone approached me at work wanting to print off something he did at home and he doesn’t have a printer. “Ok, where’s the document?” I said. He handed me a floppy disk, that’s right, a floppy disk, “I tried to open it at the library but it didn’t work”. I asked him if he had the document saved anywhere else, he didn’t, it was just on the floppy disk. It gets worse. I put it in a floppy drive we had on one of the older computers, as I expected, it wouldn’t read the disk and asked me to reformat the disk. The gentleman noticed the dialog box and said, “I think this disk was last formatted about ‘94, ‘95″. I just looked at him with a blank stare, “You’re telling me you’ve been using the same floppy disk for 14 years?”. He nodded. I couldn’t believe it, I almost burst out with laughter. A 14 year old floppy disk and he’s wondering why it’s not working, what a classic.

I went and bought myself an Airport Express today. For those who don’t know, airport express is a wireless capable device, with an ethernet port, USB port and a 3.5mm audio jack. You can use it as a wireless access point, you can use it as a wireless network range extender, you can use it as a print server, you can use it as an ethernet to wireless adapter, and you can send audio to it, via iTunes, or a nice 3rd party app called AirFoil. I bought it for it’s audio capabilities. I’ve set up the Airport in my lounge room where a nice Sony stereo resides, plugged it into the wall, hooked up the Audio, and it’s off and running, now I can send my audio from my computer to the stereo, which is awesome, but what if I want to skip a song or choose a song? That’s where Sailing Clicker comes in. Sailing Clicker is an App that lets you control certain functions on your computer, via Bluetooth or WiFi, with your PDA or phone. I’ve got a nice WiFi enabled imate PDA, which I have Sailing Clicker installed on. I can search my music library, view a playlist, pretty much do anything I want, anywhere in the house, and the audio goes through whatever my airport is plugged into. Awesomeness.

It was all pretty painless to set up, and it works just great. You can have multiple Airport expresses scattered throughout the house, and send the Audio to all of them at once, all synced and playing at the same time. Great for parties, it would be good to have a second one of these puppies to plug in outside and hook it up to some portable speakers.

The only issue I have with it at this point is when iTunes is at full volume, the Audio quality is lacking, and you get the odd pop and crackle, which is insanely loud and could damage the speakers, so you have to keep the iTunes volume at around 50% to 70%. Problem is you can adjust the volume just by pushing up on the PDA with sailing clicker, I’m working on disabling that so that no volume adjustment is possible, preventing any scary pops to my housemate’s stereo.

All of the apps and hardware work on both Mac and PC, Cool!